The bronze long sword has an ancient history, surviving countless ages without being destroyed. It has been stained with the blood of Immortal Venerables and Saints. Despite losing much of its spirituality over time, it bears too many imprints within it due to its long years.

For Xu Guang, these imprints are an extremely precious treasure.

With the help of the Narrator and his own Silence talent, Xu Guang is able to glimpse some of the secrets of time.

In the Emperor Tower, he opens a training room, takes out the Bronze Blood Sword, and begins to quietly understand its true meaning.

Time flies by.

One day, Xu Guang awakes from meditation, his brow furrowed, as if he has encountered some great trouble.

Time is too grand a concept, a domain that many Reverse Dao realm Immortal Venerables cannot comprehend, let alone a cultivator like him who hasn't even entered Nirvana Transformation.

Even though he has the Silence Divine Power and the narrative profession, attempting to take time as the true meaning of his Martial Dao seems too presumptuous.

General Wei, who was cultivating alongside him, notices something amiss and exits the Void Realm to exchange cultivation insights with him.

"I really envy you, not having to worry about these trivial matters."

Demon beasts indeed have a great natural advantage. As long as their bloodline is strong enough, the heavens leave behind a path for them. As they grow, their path continuously expands.

General Wei has a sufficiently strong bloodline, at least strong enough to support a stable cultivation to the Second Nirvana realm.

What he needs most now is to roam in the Void Realm every day, absorbing enough Spirit Charm and Source Qi to accumulate resources for his continual transformation.

This requires a long time, long enough to encompass the lifespan of many high-bloodline demon beasts.

Thus, in the wild, many demon beasts still fight for resources. Some even willingly choose to fall into the Demon Dao when they know their lifespan is insufficient.

In essence, a demon is a creature existing in a semi-Void Realm state, significantly reducing its tangible feeling in the present world, turning into a fierce ghost-like being.

Of course, General Wei also needs the nourishment of Spiritual Objects, but Xu Guang doesn't currently have much time.

After all, regarding the long lives of cultivators, they are quite young. Strictly speaking, General Wei isn't even considered an adult elephant yet.

General Wei isn't thinking as complicatedly as Xu Guang. At this moment, he is quite pleased and swings his long trunk at Xu Guang.

He indeed has reason to be pleased, having supported General Teng for so many years. Now that General Teng has begun the refinement of the Ancient God's finger, he sees his investment returning.

General Teng unexpectedly turns around to support him.

The Ancient Gods are the supreme beings of the Void Realm. In some sense, each Ancient God is a protagonist in the Void Realm, innately wielding some powers that humans cannot grasp.

During the refinement of the Ancient God's finger, General Teng can now control some changes in the Void Realm, similar to changes in the current world's heavenly phenomena. He can summon a large area of Source Qi and Spirit Charm for General Wei's cultivation use.

This is much faster than General Wei's solitary cultivation.

Xu Guang slaps his trunk, "Alright, with General Teng's help, you should cultivate well. After a while, we'll cultivate together, and when you reach the second grade, we'll go out to earn big money."

Then, Xu Guang walks out of the training room and directly heads to the top floor.

This has become his routine of late. Whenever his cultivation hits a small bottleneck, he comes to call in his debts from the wily old man.

Unfortunately, since the last return of the three Saints, the old man seems no longer to guard the Emperor Tower's Holy Artifact Pavilion. Now sitting here is another Saint-level powerhouse, Muye True King.

"Junior Brother Xu, you're here again. The Illusion Nether senior hasn't returned yet."

Upon entering, a young man stops him. This is Di Qiu, Muye True King's disciple. Muye True King has a good relationship with Tian Wu True King. Though not from the same sect as senior and junior brothers, they've worked together many times before and take care of Xu Guang.

"Not back yet? Truly unbelievable." Xu Guang says powerlessly.

Di Qiu pulls Xu Guang aside, "Be careful not to complain about the Saints. If you hadn't come, I was planning to find you. The Illusion Nether Saint actually came back a few days ago." 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"Came back?"

"But left quickly, had some unpleasantness with my master. Better not go provoke my master."

Xu Guang: ...

This old fellow, truly leaves one speechless.

Di Qiu nods and continues, "The Illusion Nether Saint, after all, is an old predecessor. I've heard he's been pondering a true skill called Multiple Treasures Dao, and he always says publicly that whoever helps him will be taught this true skill."

Xu Guang frowns, having little trust in the old rascal Illusion Nether, and seems to think of something, tentatively asking, "So, Muye True King also helped the Illusion Nether Saint?"

Di Qiu: ...

He says nothing, but his expression betrays him.

Xu Guang is utterly speechless, so the True King succeeding Illusion Nether is also an old rascal's creditor! It turns out the other party isn't avoiding just him but equally avoiding every creditor!

"Thank you, Senior Brother Di."

Understanding the situation, he thinks Di Qiu is right. Debts even True Kings can't reclaim; bringing up Illusion Nether will probably not get him any favorable reaction, no matter how good Muye True King and Tian Wu True King's relationship is with him.

Di Qiu doesn't say much but just brings Xu Guang to the side for some discussion. He is also at Second Nirvana cultivation and can see that Xu Guang seems to have encountered some bottleneck in his current cultivation.

Xu Guang doesn't deliberately hide it. The other is somewhat an experienced person and should be able to give advice on his current predicament.

Listening to Xu Guang outlining the bottleneck he faced, Di Qiu, after some thought, says softly.